Example sentences of "can not [adv] be [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Four years after the murder of ‘ little Gregory ’ his successor is still pondering the whole business , and until he makes up his mind Mrs Villemin can not finally be cleared of all suspicion , and her husband can not be tried for shooting Mr Laroche . |
| 2 | One problem of assignment has already been encountered : in Chapter 9 we saw how , although and are clearly distinct in most contexts , there are other contexts where we find a sound which can not clearly be said to belong to one or other of these two phonemes . |
| 3 | In the innumerable African models , men , women and children are forever on the move , making and remaking , in a single lifetime , domestic forms which can not logically be called households … marriage … in Africa is an extremely fragile bond . |
| 4 | This may be due either to the covalently but reversibly crosslinked intermediate formed prior to methyltransfer ( Figure 1 , structure 2 ) or to an unspecific side-reaction ( e.g. presence in the synthetic oligonucleotides of trace quantities of reactive molecular species of unknown structure and capable of unspecific crosslinking can not strictly be ruled out ) . |
| 5 | Note that aggregate supply can not strictly be regarded as being the same as national income . |
| 6 | It can not exactly be ascribed as a right of the pupil , however , since he can not ensure that the other schools and so on ask for the record . |
| 7 | First , he argued that it is highly artificial to construe all consumption as a response to needs ; while this approach may seem illuminating when it is applied to the consumption of individuals , it can not plausibly be extended to productive consumption , which has to be treated as ‘ the consumption which satisfies the needs of production ’ , if the theory is to be sustained . |
| 8 | But it can not plausibly be said that it is wholly impracticable . |
| 9 | The difficulties can not plausibly be attributed to the compilers , who would hardly have confined themselves almost exclusively to interfering with the text of Scaevola . |
| 10 | Four-coach trains regularly substituted for eight- coach , with passengers jam-packed way beyond the safety margin acceptable to a factory inspector , let alone providing a modicum of comfort , can not surely be explained away simply as lack of funding or union intransigence . |
| 11 | ( Well , she thought , we can not surely be meant to play together ? |
| 12 | Thus to is used with the infinitive both for the lexical and grammatical meaning it brings into the context : its lexical meaning of an approach to the infinitive event from a position before is called for by the relative position in time of the extra-infinitival spatial support with respect to the position occupied by non-ordinalized person at the beginning of the infinitive 's event ; its grammatical meaning as an establisher of a relation where the inherent mechanism of incidence is inoperative is called for by the fact that the event can not otherwise be represented as incident to the extra-infinitival support since the latter is not already situated at the beginning of the event , i.e. is not within the confines of event time . |
| 13 | whenever the effect can not reasonably be quantified , in which case the directors should explain the circumstances . |
| 14 | Nevertheless , the rewritten version conforms so closely to the original , with just isolated words changed , that it can not reasonably be called a paraphrase . |
| 15 | It is clear , though , that there remains a very wealthy minority who can not reasonably be regarded as ‘ middle class ’ . |
| 16 | Now that policy and I think think I 'll it out , The proposals for industry and commerce that are not in accordance with the relevant policies of this plan would not normally be permitted but special provision for very large projects may occasionally be made in exceptional circumstances provided that , and there are three criteria , There would be substantial proven employment or other benefits to county residents , the proposal can not reasonably be implemented on land proposed in local plans for industrial or commercial development bearing in mind the undertakings operational requirements , and thirdly , that there are no overriding planning objections . |
| 17 | However , one charge that can not reasonably be made against the Government is that they have privatized the service . |
| 18 | Some weeks after accepting delivery and paying for the computer , it is found that , although the computer works well in every other respect , it is not compatible with the company 's other machines and can not reasonably be made so . |
| 19 | But clearly there is a point beyond which restrictions can not reasonably be imposed on the grounds of good neighbourliness without payment of compensation — and ‘ general considerations of regional or national policy require so great a restriction on the landowner 's use of his land as to amount to a taking away from him of a proprietary interest in the land ’ . |
| 20 | Nevertheless some form of indicator of performance must be laid down beforehand or progress can not reasonably be assessed later . |
| 21 | That conception , for all the problems it raises , can not reasonably be said to be of the same character . |
| 22 | Although the hammock episode is explicable in terms of his experience , the subsequent transition to drifting above the ground can not reasonably be related to his usual fate when falling out of the hammock ; these dreams , which are not uncommon , seem uniquely detached from any experience in real life . |
| 23 | Such entry could be extremely disruptive to the tenant and the following proviso may be advisable : Anyone entering the Premises under any of the provisions contained in this Lease shall only do so if the purpose of such entry can not reasonably be achieved otherwise than by effecting entry on to the Premises and any person or persons entering the Premises pursuant to the provisions of this Lease shall cause the minimum of disturbance to the business being carried on in the Premises and shall not in any event prevent such business from being carried on and shall forthwith make good all damage caused by such entry |
| 24 | that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner can not reasonably be expected to live with him ( or her ) ; |
| 25 | that the respondent has behaved in such a way that the applicant can not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent ; or |
| 26 | That the respondent has behaved in such a way that the petitioner can not reasonably be expected to live with the respondent . |
| 27 | To get the divorce you have to show that your wife has behaved in such a way that you ‘ can not reasonably be expected ’ to live with her . |
| 28 | If you can not reasonably be expected to vote in person on polling day you can apply for an absent vote . |
| 29 | Therefore absolute trust , which we placed eagerly with the likes of Clarkie and as a result had our faces rubbed in the dirt , can not reasonably be expected . |
| 30 | A counter-notice which must be served within 21 days after service of the Notice , should only be given where it is required that the party whose statement it is sought to admit , should be called as a witness , but there are witnesses who can not , or should not be called , that is if dead , beyond the seas , or unfit to attend , or who can not after reasonable diligence be identified , or can not reasonably be expected to have any recollection ; consequently in respect of all those persons , the opposing party is not entitled to serve a counter-notice requiring such person to be called unless he can contend that the person can , or should be called . |